How Drake Betrayed Megan Thee Stallion
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Tory Lanez has been sentenced for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, and we have THOUGHTS. Scamfluencers co-host and former BuzzFeed reporter Scaachi Koul is joined by Refinery29 deputy director Kathleen Newman-Bremang to unpack why so many people turned against Megan despite Tory Lanez being a wasteman. They explain what exactly is a “Toronto Mans” and why this dangerous subsection of man is crossing American borders in the forms of Drake, the Weeknd, and more.
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| 0:57.6 | Explicit language warning. We're cursing a lot in this episode so don't |
| 1:01.6 | listen to it with your kids. Or do, I'm not their mother. Welcome to the waves, Slate's podcast about the terror of gender, feminism, and today one of Canada's worst exports. |
| 1:18.0 | It's not Howie Mandel, not this time, though we do feel very sorry about that one. Every week we talk about what |
| 1:26.0 | fresh hell is being unleashed on the girls and the gays, the they's and |
| 1:29.6 | them's, and anyone else similarly committed to a society free of cis male dominance. |
| 1:34.6 | Indeed, this is a community full of she sheds. No man caves. I'm your host, |
| 1:40.4 | Satchikal. You probably know who Megan, The Stallion is, otherwise known as |
| 1:45.8 | The hottest woman in America. That's actually fact-checked. You can look it up on Snopes right now. |
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